AI Business Weekly — September 10, 2026: An Anthropic Researcher Just Put a Number on AI Extinction Risk
Five stories on AI's mounting reckoning, from a stark internal safety warning and a formal US accusation against six Chinese AI firms to the political battle over data centers and two genuinely different bets on trust.
Anthropic Researcher: 10%+ Chance AI Could Kill Everyone
An Anthropic safety researcher said there's a greater than 10% chance AI could kill all humans within a decade, after a colleague resigned over the same concern.
Biggest Pro-AI PAC Says Data Center Fight Just Started
Leading the Future, a pro-AI super PAC backed by OpenAI's Greg Brockman with $50 million cash on hand, says the data center political fight is in "early innings."